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Nicholas Danforth

Nicholas Danforth

Jun 18, 2026

16:03
I'll do the timeout signal.
16:06
It's incredible that Trump has simultaneously managed to humiliate both the hawks that supported him and the pro-restraint people that supported him, and launch a war that's catastrophic and fails to achieve any of the aims that the neocons wanted.
16:21
I think it's telling that everyone is increasingly seeing through this kind of farce politique that Trump is engaged in.
16:28
Dahlia and Peter both spoke to that well, but I'm kind of not surprised that people on this call, that some of our CI fellows see through this.
16:35
What's more impressive to me is that even some of the more mainstream folks who've been willing to stain wash a lot of what Trump does, are now increasingly recognizing that, yeah, nothing about what he's saying is real.
16:47
What is going to matter is whatever happens on the ground in the next two weeks.
16:52
That's the reality of this deal.
19:01
And do you have any sense of how politically volatile this either within the United States context or within the international diplomatic context, this agreement will be?

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